Thursday 30 July 2015

179 Never Seen Photos Of The Past PT2



See part 1 HERE

First picture ever taken in space (1946)




German flying ace, 'The Red Baron' and his dog (1916)



Headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist Party (1934)



Hiroshima - Before and After (1945)



Hungarian Revolution of 1956


JFK and LBJ during the Cuban Missle Crisis (1962)


Joseph and magda Goebbels on their wedding day. Best man- Adolf Hitler (1931)





Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister. 1933 in Geneva by Alfred Eisenstaedt taken right after he realized the photographer was Jewish.




Last photo taken of the Titanic (1912)




Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in Giza (1961)



Mark Twain inside the laboratory of Nikola Tesla (1894)



Opening of King Tut's sarcophagus (1924)


Prohibition- Alcohol barrels to be burned (1924)



Pyramid of captured German helmets, New York (1918)



Ruby Bridges, first african-american to attend a white elementary school in the South (Nov. 14th, 1960)



Samurai (ca. 1860-1880)



SAS detachment (Jan. 19th, 1943)





Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii



Soviet soldiers take a break to watch an acrobatic show on the march towards Berlin (1945)




The dog of General George S. Patton on the day of his death (1945)



The main gate to Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp built in 1944 called "the Gate of Death"



The SAS storming the Iranian Embassy to free hostages taken by terrorists. London. 1980





Thich Quang Duc (1963)






Three Archers, Japan (ca. 1870-1880)






Triumphant dog sitting atop a gun surrounded by gunners, France, during World War 1



Tsar Nicholas and friend (1899)




Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (1961)



A curious Italian woman inspects the kilt of a Scottish soldier near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome (1944)



New York shoe shine boys photographed by stanley kubrick (1947)


101st Airborne paratoopers paint each others faces on the eve of their jump into the invasion of Normandy (1944)

A German soldier who got his arm blown off in battle

Dead soldier beneath crucifix WWI (1917)



Soldiers of an Australian 4th Division field artillery brigade on a duckboard track passing through Chateau Wood (1917)





Reichserntedankfest rally (Thanksgiving Celebration of the Reich), 1934This is the Reichserntedankfest of 1934 in Buckeberg. That year, 700,000 people participated.



Nazis singing to encourage a boycott of Jewish shops , 1933



German SS troops relaxing at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin



Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light, 1937

Hitlers personal bodyguards undergoing a drill inspection in Berlin, 1938



Loyalty oath of Nazi SS troops, Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938

The SS motto was Our honour is loyalty.
Ovation for Hitler in the Reichstag after announcing the successful Anschluss, 1938

Another photo from a different event but with the same style.

Body of frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish fighters to intimidate Soviet troops, 1939

Two Soviet infantrymen frozen to death in their foxhole, Finland, 1940

Stalin in an off-record photo captured by his bodyguard Vlasik
Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942

German soldier lighting his cigarette with a flamethrower, 1940s
Ukrainian askaris standing near bodies of murdered Jews, Warsaw, 1943
Simone Segouin poses with a German MP 40 with which she is most proficient.


The image shows the faces of German POWs, captured by Americans, watching a film about a concentration camp. This forced confrontation brought Germans face-to-face with the worst works of the Third Reich.

Studying the effects of weightlessness on a living mammal at 25,000', 1958
 he first photograph upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912

Underwater detonation of 15 kiloton nuclear weapon
Einsteins desk photographed a day after his death

Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks in WWI, 1916

Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1940

A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler which shows his true eye color
Gadget, the first atomic bomb

The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941

The night they ended Prohibition, December 5th 1933
A rare shot of a young handsome Winston Churchill, 1895
Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923
Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital, 1940

Control room of the UB-110 German submarine, 1918

Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920


The 2800 year old kiss
Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916

Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
Annette Kellerman promotes womens right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency

Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937

Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII

Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944

Sun tan vending machine, 1949

Measuring bathing suits if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920?s

Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960


Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964

Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929

A beautiful suicide. Young girl jumps off Empire State Building.

Betty White at home with her dog in 1952

Crowds rush through the castle on Disneyland 's opening day in 1955.

 
 
Stephen Hawking marries Jane Wilde in 1965.



 Known as Little Nap, the “Napoleon of the Chimpanzee World”, this chimp became a popular tourist attraction (1915).



Back in 1956, a PanAm plane was needed to to transport a 5 MB hard drive.



Fishing buddies Che Guevara and Fidel Castro (1960).




 The first international match at Wimbledon in 1883.



Police chasing skinny dippers.



The only known photo of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. John Wilkes Booth can actually be seen in the center of the top row of the top platform (March 4, 1865).



Queen Elizabeth II fires a British L85 battle rifle (1993).



The glasses John Lennon wore when he was assassinated (1980).



A well-dressed beggar running alongside King George V’s coach (1920).



An Actors’ portrayal of President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe’s rumored affair. This photo was taken by photographer Alison Jackson to portray what may have taken place the night Marilyn Monroe performed at JFK’s 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden.





Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev as a young gentleman.


A navigation hotline in 1963. Long, long before Google Maps.


One for the movies: a stripper entertains some Wall Street employees.



Back when computers didn’t have screens.


A black liquid called Coca-Cola was first introduced to France in 1950.


Human-size chess game with actual soldiers in St. Petersburg, Russia (1924).


During the Oil Crisis, the roads were so deserted that people could have picnics on highways (1973).


Test pilot George Aird narrowly escapes death by ejecting sideways from a prototype jet that nosedived (1962).


The Indiana Jones movie set – no CGI back then!
To promote liberty bonds, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. holds up Charlie Chaplin at Wall Street 1918.


A Japanese commuter train early in the morning.
To study facial muscles, Neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne electrocuted a man’s face (1862)
A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to a co-worker after he accidentally touched a high voltage wire (1967).





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